Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-08

ask them not to read this stuff of stuffs,
this trash of trashiest trash"
The man does acknowledge his con-
descension after all. Well, we are not
noted for "puritY of diction, polished
manners nor scholarly phraseology,"
but we have never yet allowed our
style of writing to get so trashy" and
low, as to be compelled to apologize to
our patrons for it. Merritt, we truly are
sorry to know, that one whom we sup.
posed had intellect enough to chamber
a decent ideo, so loses his balance, and
pollutes his columns with the following
expressions: the product of filth and
dirt" "but like bully," "I'll rip with
Euripides, ETC." ''and gathering all the
filthy scabs from off the fostering sores
Of polluted age, I'll roll these morsels
meath my tongue, ETC., 'silly slabber,"
SaS-Da8, etc. anu cte.
1t matters not how much the gentle
mans precious band-box honor was
insulted, this style proves two things,
firstly, that the republican part Of this
Siamese twin monstrosity, of the
Oregon Sentinel, is not scholarly gen.
tleman in the use of the Kings English,
and, secondly, he has not made an
argument to support his imaginary in.
suit. Now, he claims that we insultod
him, by simply saying that the Times
was a better paper than any other ii,
Southern Oregon, and that it was con-
temptible to make filings at a paper
that was superior to theirs. The fer
tile brain of this hybrid arrangement
imagined great deal more, and init
mated that Charley Nickel must be
propltiated in order to advance our
political preferment, for be it known,
that THE REVIEW and Times are at
loggerheads and something must lie
done. Now, We deal with Mr.. Nickel
wholly as journalist, and spoke of his
, paper in that sense. AS to his business
methods, he is amply able to care for
himself, and the Sentinel and other
papers are welcome to criticise him,
and further, Mr.. Nickel and we have
, not written syllable to each other
nor received word from each other
in relation to anything except what has
been published, neither has any living
man suggested a compromise between
Mr.. Nickel and the editor Of TN
REVIEW, and therefore, all the surmis
ings and supposed insults are only
vapor:ngs Of an unhealthy imagination
) Mr. Nickel criticizes us when thu
: notion takes HIM, and we talk littl'
| ourselves in return and it ends there
, we are friends still. We are in til,
habit of conducting independent jour
r mails On all personal grounds. bu
broadly democratic; and we confes.
that we make some mistakes now anC
, then, but to make such a mistake a;
fortuity has made in the component
parts of the Oregon Sentinel; as c
) compound it is hybrid, with no hopes
of posterity; separate, the parts are
! natural and all we'll, put them togethel
. DIS they are and the science of pharmacy
!, is hoax. We have now spoken th'
( facts in the case, you can now mock on
We should be pleased to conduct con
troversy with Mr.. Merritt that haG
some point in it, if he would agree tc
discuss it in manly way as becometl
one of the craft, but to "cast out &
mans name as evil" without solitary
, reason, and accordingly his style doe
not suit us, and, of course, we must b
excused. We rest our case here, anc
will give SO to any man that viii
kick us across the street if we evel
perpetrate such an insult upon decen
journalism again, noticing sucl
ungainly stuff in our columns. With
kind feelings to all, Eve are yourn" il
the bonds of disappointment.